Misc

A short, simple and interesting segue into the Nash’s equilibrium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jILgxeNBK_8

Setting up a placeholder for all the hikes I’d like to do. As and when time permits, I shall update these listings with more details. [table id=2 /] Compiled from Buzzfeed , Lifehack, IndiaHikes and the rest of the internet.

YouTube put this up on my suggested videos list. Magnificent! Adding the Leshan Giant Buddha to my travel list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHOef8Q2K8A

Titanic possibly sank due to an optical Illusion: Smithsonian As a kid I remember learning these principles with no real world tangible examples. Today as I see a plausible explanation, I’m baffled!

Of late, I’ve been having these schizophrenic discussions. Well, not really but yes - to that effect. The student in me babbles in dead zone while the teacher in me confounds newer variants of possible surprises. Just 15 days to the third actuarial exam. ...

The very concept of diving to depths without any apparatus, Japanese Ama tribe, Spear-Fishing - Learning about these for the first time today! Mind boggling! Deep: Freediving and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves

Appalachians next!

Ragnar times

Quite a few things have changed since I last wrote. It’s been a while. Actually quite some time. It’s not that I’ve not been visiting this space, just that a few other things took unprecedented limelight. As I sit here on the NJ transit commuting back from work a class, I finally decided to get back to recording those shifts in my life over the past two years. To start with I’m now married for about a year now to a then colleague of mine at TeachforIndia. It started with that defining moment when I heard her shout across the hallway to another colleague about a bike ride. At the end of two years, she not only convinced me to tie the knot right after the fellowship but also join her dad’s freshly relaunched company. A wonderful wedding led us down south to Chennai. Right after the wedding, Meena[Me] had plans to head to UCAL, Berkeley for her masters. She’d petitioned for my visa to the US and then I had absolutely no idea what I’d be doing here besides running a few marathons. Just a couple of days before she flew out, the university got back to her stating she couldn’t join that term as she didn’t have the mandatory 16 years of education. Me joined me in helping her dad at the SOHO where we tutored and counselled students for GRE and GMAT. This was besides elaborate meetings with several people and universities on niche courses we could bring to the table. In hindsight - The tremendous learning curve, opportunity to meet some really brilliant people, staying with the Bhaskars and besides working day in and out with one of the smartest people I’ve met so far; negated all the qualms I ever had over moving to Chennai. ...

Yesterday I felt miserably lost and figured I wasn’t doing anything worthwhile staring at the screen. I took a quick shower and decided to take a stroll. Left at about 1749 and decided to walk down to the Shangumugam beach about 6kms from my house. In a sturdy pace I hit the beach and returned back on a different route. Thought process all through the walk was nothing intellectual. Just random strings buzzing in and out. Got back home and hit the bed pretty early. ...